Re: [PATCH 1/2] memcg: dirty pages accounting and limitinginfrastructure

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Mon Feb 22 2010 - 12:29:52 EST


* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-02-22 10:58:40]:

>
> We seem to be doing same operation as existing "mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped"
> function is doing to udpate some stats. Can we just reuse that? We
> probably can create one core function which take index of stat to update
> and update_file_mapped and other variants for memcg dirty ratio can make
> use of it.
>

Good Point, it can be easily extended to be generic

> In fact instead of single function charge_dirty() accounting for
> WRITEBACK, we well as other states like UNSTABLE_NFS is not very intutive.
> May be we can have indivdual functions.
>
> mem_cgroup_update_dirty()
> mem_cgroup_update_writeback()
> mem_cgroup_update_unstable_nfs() etc.
>

Hmm.. probably yes.

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Three Cheers,
Balbir
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